Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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! A CLERGYMAN who had got partly through
! the marriage ceremony for young couple at
Lancaster, Pa. last week, suddenly stopped
| and asked the groom if he had been drinking.
| The la ter admitted that he had taken just
one glass as "bracer," and the minister
thereupon hatly refused to conclude the cere--
mony. remarklng that he hau ueteImlheu
never to marry man who was n the slightest
degree under the influence OF liquor.
AN elopement has never taken place In the
Netherlands. Three weeks before the we'd
ding day thescouple. accompanied by their
parents or guardians. proceed TO the city
hall and make heir intentions known to the
proper official, when legal notice of this in
tentl0n ia placed IN frame in front of the
! court house, remaining there for twenty days.
! The interval between the notification and the
bridal DAY Is period of uninterrupted fes-
Invites, the families Of bride anu groom Wy
ing with each other in giving dinners and
dancing parties.
RICHARD MALCOLM TOMBSTONE. the writer
of Southern dialect stories, is about 60 years
! OF age. For years before the war he con-
Quoted a fine school for boys. modelled on
Rugby. He had large plantation near
sparta, Ga, and gave his boys all its advan-
tages. He was sklilful and Jealous. and he
developed some fine boys. But during the
war he lost first his pupils, and then his
slaves. and finally the bulk of his property.
After the war he went to Maryland and
sought to establish similar school near Balti-
more. But this enterprise did not succeed,
and so he betook himself TO literature.
THE cost Of cremation at Gotha, according
to a report recently read before the Berlin
Cremation Society. amounts to f2l los,
| exclusive of church fees, singing, bell
ringing, mourning, coaches and urn. An
urn may be deposited, free OF expense, IN the
columbarium for twenty years, ct the eNpl-
ration of which term the safe keeping is to be
paid for, or the urn will be properly inferred,
nnipSs n w loo al hV rpl a
III the lnclnerated remains are to be inferred
IN Gotha cemetery Immediately after being
cremated such lnterment must be paid for
! like any other; they NAV. however, be taken
away in tin case by the family ifso desired.
1T is announced that Mgr. Langeneux, the
Archbishop of Rheims, purposes holding on
July II. next, great religious festival in the
cathedral OF that city, in memory OF the cOro-
nation OF Charles VII, which took place in
the Cathedral OF Rheims on July II, 1929.
through the exploits of Jeanne Il Are. AT the
request Of the Archbishop, NJ. GounOud hss
composed mas Tor the occasion, in which
he mas introduced q solo for violin, with obi
cato organ accompaniment, intended to rep
resent those interior voices which Jeanne
always protested to follow as guides. This
solo has been written for Henri Marteau,
young French yloiinist.
TIE King OF Corea is never seen by his
common subjects excepting on certain occa-
sions when he goes to worship at the shrines
Of his ancestors. On these occasions the
streets are cleared of the merchant booths
anu AL other distractions. fresh yellow clay
is spread over the road. mounted and foot
police keep the crowd in order, and the King
passes by IN procession Of nearly mile n
length. The procession is one OF the most
gorgeous spectaces to be seen in The East,
aud as modern civilization win be apt s0On 10
modify IT, il is certainly well worth seeing.
Already foreign uniforms and guns are be-
ginning to rob il Of some Of It's barbaric
,plendor The King rides in a gorgeous red
throne, supported on the shoulders Of thirty
TWO men.
DR.. LABoRDE has read report to the Paris
Geological Society, in which he gave some
interesting results of experiments in fasting
carried out with dogs. \ dog weighing IN
kilos. about "a pounds died on the twentie h
day Of bis fast. Another animal OF the same
kind and weight thar was SLOWED water ad
libitum was in good health on the fort eth
dsy. The dog hat died weighed when dead
only kios. about ~ pounds the dog that
survived weighed on the twentieth dav az
Siios., and on the fOrtleth 76 kllos. or a little
more than half his original weight. There
was some anxiety IS TO now he could safeiv
be allowed to resume food. but the dog .olVed
the question FOR himself. taking i.-kio. OF
soup and kllo. OF flesh without the slightest
I subsequent inconvenience.
II HOLLAND an unmarried lady always
takes the right arm of her escort, while the
Earried one selects the left side Of her nus
band. so deeply has the custom entered INTO
/ the life OF Hotanders, that at q church wei
dl1g the bride enters the eCi6ce on the riqht
side OF the groom. the young wife returning
on be eft side Of her husband when the cere-
mo7y mss been performed. No unmarried
lady il thSt country can dream 81 going O
church. concert or any other place Of uk bic
Z assenblSge, without the escort Of parents T
male mem Oers Of her family. She cannot Ia Q
3 walk. pay visit or 20 shopping uHArcnrt-
, osnisd bv her mother or some married a.
3 - nd y Ia - "a fhar -
neriCan competitor. troubled in the even
nE with tue thought thai his daughter ) i /
JeninG the pockstDoOk of + poorly -pafg ut de
oy An lndl=crlminate indulgence in ice cream
or oysters.
OXFORD" ssys the London Times. IS
threatened with the revival Of the antioust.d
mach merry which was put N acuon lqet
nearly half = century since against Dr.Pvsey.
when be ~ss sentenced 20 q wear : slssensiou
from the University pulpit. The ~. L
Fletcher. rector al CariaN, IS At present one
o. the select preachers 10 The University.
auU in tbs capacity preached short whi;e
since sermon OF ve~v liberal tendency. Ins
Rev. I. :. CuIkes. Yicsr 90 -. Narv's bs-
iald s complaint sGslnst the sermon before
me lce-l nan ellJ-. Hr. Bri&mY. L. Pres
ldeUt OF -. Johns. am called upnn him d
appoint TX Doctors OF DIVINITY. as Wa sar,
IN the case Of Or. PUscy, 90 80 In trGsru..f.
on the sermon. which ne sccuses OF .eNer.l
neres es, among others p'nlai OF The ieI-r 90 .
the fall OF lam. The NicC-t haurtl or liza.
called for copy o. the sermon. Aai The ,l..--
ter bss ssye. gone no further"
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for railroad cVmr4n.e> chartered or aided D,
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senate. Ny. Bees grAilded Mr.. Eyari. b~ DIS
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ma. SETON. sHo ine hvnt1cSv Senator is.
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